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Oct 16, 2010
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Cycle Chic said:
Anyone see Tomic in his post match press conference...strange behaviour and then an incident happens at 4.30mins. He has a bit of an Armstrong moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsloOjcRK3I

yep, interesting scene.
tomic intimidating the journo.
pretty sad to be a sports journo in this day and age, tbh.
either you stick your head deep in the asses of a bunch of cheaters, or you do your work and you end up without a job like kimmage.
 
zebedee said:
In or out of competition would make no difference.

Feel free to think a little first.

Out of competition tests fall under the remit of the athletes own national affiliation, international affiliation or WADA. Any action is taken by the athletes national anti-doping agency. I both think and read before I post, you should consider doing the same.
 
Cycle Chic said:
They haven't been tesing SaMANtha Steroid Stosur much then...

SaMANtha as she is meant to be:
svSTOSURPAGEONE-420x0.jpg


:eek:
 
Oct 18, 2012
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I have been next to Stosur many times and her body is actually quite compact. IMO her arm and shoulder muscles are easily achievable naturally with semi-serious gym work. Serena on the other hand, has arms bigger than Rafa's. :eek:
 
thrawn said:
You do realise that's a year old?

yeh thanks didn't see that..they showed it and were discussing that interview before the Dan Evans match up. I presumed it was US Open interview. Bit naughty of Sky to dredge that interview up for us to see.
 
Do you see how Errani, No 4 seed, can't hack it any longer now she's being watched like a hawk and presumably cannot resort to her Del Moral training and recovery "solutions?" A year ago she made the semis. Apart from the French, this year she's been out of the grand slams by the end of the second round. She needs to get back to the doctor she claims was "good for everything."

I did say before that the Armstrong ramifications for tennis will predictably mean a lot more upsets and ranking moves as the players get scared, warned off or water down their usual programmes, although the Cilic and Troicki cases amply demonstrate that players are still using. Whispers in the Croatian press are that Cilic is expecting a one year ban which he is serving already via his provisional suspension.

If Tomic is using, he needs to sack his doctor. Apart from the first set he was pathetic yesterday.
 
Errani

wansteadimp said:
Article on Errani feeling the pressure - sounds like guilty conscience?

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/feedarticle/10951916

not a mention of working with Dr LUIS GARCIA DEL MORAL in that article. She's cant sleep at night because the Italian authorities are sniffing at her door. Her STEROID BLOATING in her legs and arms is 'not normal' for an athlete.


International Tennis Federation to increase testing on players linked to Dr Luis García del Moral

The ITF was so concerned about Del Moral’s alleged links to tennis players that it sent a message to all tennis professionals telling them not to work with him. But Telegraph Sport understands anti-doping bodies remain concerned that some players may be continuing to work with Del Moral despite the warning and have therefore increased the level of testing undergone by those under suspicion.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...ayers-linked-to-Dr-Luis-Garcia-del-Moral.html

Whats Del Moral up to these days ? apart from being struck off' which means nothing. Did he get a jail term ?
 
Steroid Bloat

zebedee said:
Do you see how Errani, No 4 seed, can't hack it any longer now she's being watched like a hawk and presumably cannot resort to her Del Moral training and recovery "solutions?" A year ago she made the semis. Apart from the French, this year she's been out of the grand slams by the end of the second round. She needs to get back to the doctor she claims was "good for everything."

I did say before that the Armstrong ramifications for tennis will predictably mean a lot more upsets and ranking moves as the players get scared, warned off or water down their usual programmes, although the Cilic and Troicki cases amply demonstrate that players are still using. Whispers in the Croatian press are that Cilic is expecting a one year ban which he is serving already via his provisional suspension.

If Tomic is using, he needs to sack his doctor. Apart from the first set he was pathetic yesterday.

Never seen a top athlete with arm and leg STEROID BLOAT like Errani either. Would be interesting to see earlier footage of her physique 3 years ago...before she took up with the larger tennis racquet :rolleyes:
 
Yes, Errani's prize earnings correlate neatly with the timing of her association with Del Moral of whom she said "he was the best doctor in Valencia for everything, so I have been working with him, of course."

Just as stark is the contrast in her performance in competition where prior to her link up with a doping enabler she had never beaten a top-10 player and had only one win to her name in thirty seven matches against a top 15 WTA player. Then, "working" with Del Moral, she gets to the final of the French, shoots to a No 5 world ranking in singles and world No 2 in doubles.

A clearer suspect case of doping-enabled elite performance you could not get.
 
May 2, 2010
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Cycle Chic said:
in 2008 ERRANI earned $3000 approx.
in 2009 " " $7000
in 2010 " " $13,000
in 2011 " " $5,500
in 2012 " " $225,000

Way on the low end of figures. I think those must be her doubles earnings.

According to http://legacy.tennis.com/players/player_earnings_history.aspx?player_name=Sara+Errani her figures are:

2007 $0
2008 $265,165
2009 $369,979
2010 $470,997
2011 $414,126
2012 $3,110,636
2013 $2,117,359

Still a massive jump, whichever way you look at it. 25 years old for a women to break through makes it look even worse...
 
Jul 21, 2012
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Amazing what a good doctor can do for you isnt it. Maybe she was suffering from Badzilla.

One thing thats pretty obvious that i didnt really think about before is the difference between Venus and Serena. Venus looks pretty normal but Serena, well we know what she looks like. So its kinda hard to imagine that genetics would make one of them look like a freak of nature but the other "normal"
 
Saw a nice little piece from Corrado Barazzuti (Italian national coach) in his La Gazzetta column on Wednesday. In it he describes the phenomenal movement of the big, modern tennis prototype. He regards the rapid movement ability of these big men to keep behind the ball as "inspiegabile" i.e. not properly explainable even allowing for developments in sports science, nutrition, racquets, strings etc etc. A clear inference to the use of peds though he doesn't say it out loud.
 
miguelsol said:
I have been next to Stosur many times and her body is actually quite compact. IMO her arm and shoulder muscles are easily achievable naturally with semi-serious gym work. Serena on the other hand, has arms bigger than Rafa's. :eek:

yea, a couple of hours in the gym will quickly get you biceps the size of Stosur. Doing the odd garden work will help too.
 
Oct 18, 2012
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Dazed and Confused said:
yea, a couple of hours in the gym will quickly get you biceps the size of Stosur. Doing the odd garden work will help too.

I'm not saying she's clean, but just from my own experience of working out back in the day, Rambo arms are not as hard to get naturally as some might think. I only used protein powder and amino acid pills back then. I have no idea what people take nowadays.
 
Flipkens

Kirsten Flipkens ranks alongside Errani. 12th seed at US Open this year. From 2003 until 2012 she didn't advance beyond the 3rd round of a tournament (singles)..talk about donkey to racehorse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Flipkens

blood clots in her calf and she comes back as a different player....and is still on blood thinners which she takes before any flight longer than 3 hours :rolleyes: so living in Belgium that's every Grand Slam and some..

It's really difficult to predict who's tennis game is going to improve in leaps and bounds in any year and few at the start of 2013 would have thought that Kirsten would do so well, given the fact she's now 27, an age when most tennis players have already peaked. I doubt many would have predicted the extraordinary rise of Sara Errani or Angelique Kerber either

http://www.wta-blog.com/2013/03/kirsten-flipkens-rebounds-from-serious.html
 
Feb 8, 2013
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Cycle Chic said:
Kirsten Flipkens ranks alongside Errani. 12th seed at US Open this year. From 2003 until 2012 she didn't advance beyond the 3rd round of a tournament (singles)..talk about donkey to racehorse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Flipkens

blood clots in her calf and she comes back as a different player....and is still on blood thinners which she takes before any flight longer than 3 hours :rolleyes: so living in Belgium that's every Grand Slam and some..



http://www.wta-blog.com/2013/03/kirsten-flipkens-rebounds-from-serious.html

Im pretty sure from Belgium you can get to two of the slams within an hour....
But agree with the bit in red and above
 
May 2, 2010
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Cycle Chic said:
Kirsten Flipkens ranks alongside Errani. 12th seed at US Open this year. From 2003 until 2012 she didn't advance beyond the 3rd round of a tournament (singles)..talk about donkey to racehorse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Flipkens

blood clots in her calf and she comes back as a different player....and is still on blood thinners which she takes before any flight longer than 3 hours :rolleyes: so living in Belgium that's every Grand Slam and some..



http://www.wta-blog.com/2013/03/kirsten-flipkens-rebounds-from-serious.html

Flipkens has more prize money this year than in the rest of her career combined.